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Syncretism (/ˈsɪŋkrətɪzəm, ˈsɪn-/) is the
practice of
combining different beliefs and
various schools of thought.
Syncretism involves the
merging or ****imilation...
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signifies respect. Like all
modern Indo-Aryan languages,
Nepali grammar has
syncretised heavily,
losing much of the
complex declensional system present in the...
- in a
pristine form in
South India and Sri
Lanka and in a
Tantrayana syncretised form in
Indonesia (as Siwa Siddhanta)
propounds a
devotional philosophy...
- or
social classes. This
social structure was
characterised both by
syncretising with the
native cultures of
northern India but also
eventually by the...
- religion, the sun
deity was the male god Helios, who in
later times was
syncretised with Apollo. In
ancient Roman culture,
Sunday was the day of the sun...
- many conversions. To the
consternation of the Europeans, Ni-Vanuatu
syncretised Christianity with
traditional kastom beliefs. The
Anglican Melanesian...
- Baucau, and the
Diocese of Maliana. In
rural areas,
Catholicism is
often syncretised with
local animist beliefs. The
number of
Timorese Protestants and Muslims...
- "Great Buddha"
dedicated to him. From this
recognition Hachiman was
syncretised into
Buddhism from
early on. Then in the "First Year of the Era of Ten'ō...
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Vodou ritual, but
served first after Legba. The Mar****a are
commonly syncretised with the
Catholic Saints Cosmas and Damian.
Edwidge Danticat explores...
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coinage shows a
seated Zeus, who may have been
worshipped there as a
syncretised form of the
Arabian sun-god Shams.
Tylos was also the site of Gr**** athletic...
